Russia
Trump Will Be Tougher on Russia Than Many Expect
A closer reading of the history suggests the incoming Trump administration will pursue a harder line on Russia than some observers have feared. As Donald Trump returns to the White...
Russia’s ‘Africa Corps’ Has New Armored Vehicles
Moscow has sought to establish a greater presence in North and West Africa, and the “Russian Expeditionary Corps” is leading those efforts.
Russia’s “Admiral Nakhimov” Battlecruiser Is Returning to the High Seas
Russian telegram channels monitoring interesting developments with the Russian Armed Forces are abuzzwith posts about the iconic, though shuttered, Kirov-class battlecruiser, the Admiral Nakhimov, undergoing its first sea trials since the leviathan was decommissioned...
Ukraine and Russia’s Collapsing Home Front
Since February 24, 2022, when Russian forces poured into Ukraine, Western observers and governments have concentrated their attention on the fighting front. Intelligence agencies in Britain, Poland, the Baltic countries,...
Russia Is Creating Havoc in Africa
Russia is embattled in a major conflict in Ukraine. Currently, the Russian military is on the offensive and is gaining ground. The Kremlin has poured billions of dollars and hundreds...
Why Navalny’s Murder Did Not Kill Opposition to Putin
The Kremlin completed its slow-motion killing of jailed anti-corruption activist and opposition politician Alexei Navalny last week, snuffing out one of Russia’s leading anti-Putin lights. But the more things change...
Why Putin Feared Alexei Navalny’s Vision of a New Russia
Alexei Navalny was a giant figure in Russian politics. No other individual rivaled the threat he posed to the Putin regime. His death in an Arctic labor camp is a...
Putin’s Wartime Dictatorship Enters a New Year
Where is Russia going as a political system? What has changed since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War? What exactly is Russia’s political order, and how does it work? These...
How Did We Get Russia So Wrong?
Thomas Graham, Getting Russia Right ( Cambridge, Polity Books), 272 pp., $29.95. Veteran Russia-watcher Thomas Graham recently published a thoughtful reflection on U.S.-Russia relations, Getting Russia Right. Through the late...
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Should Guide Our Approach to Russia
Since Russia began its full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies have provided historic levels of assistance to Kyiv, implemented the most extensive network of...
History Knows How Russia’s Assault on Ukraine Will End
There are three possible objectives in a war of conquest: assimilation, imposition, and accommodation. The first was demonstrated by the Holy Roman Empire as it sought to tie its origins...